I have an iPad model NGKM2B/A - 3years old? 64GB with WiFi, iOS11.2.5
Once upon a time I was able to watch the movies that I have in my iTunes library via iTunes or loaded to my iPad. Then Apple chose to strip it out to ?was it "Videos"?. I tried using that back in December on a train journey with no WiFi but for some reason that program required a WiFi connection.
Now I am told that Videos "this app requires features not available on this device" . Since when -- and why?
I just looked at Apple TV for my iPad and it seems that it will only let me watch content purchased from Apple? Is there anything out there please which will just let me view my ripped and recorded video? Or is Apple now just out for every extra buck they can make? (OK - Higher Degree in Advanced Cynicism in play here )
Has everything changed now? Can anyone suggest how to find an app that lets me watch my own content preferably without needing WiFi?
Whatever happened to "it just works"?
regards,
TerryB

Well everyone - I did (eventually) succumb and bought a Synology DS416 back in mid-August. As of this date I'm still struggling with it.
Read on and learn!
I have:
my old MBP (2009 - non upgradeable) (500GB) and 4GB Ram under OSX El Capitan
a Mac mini server (late 2012) (2* 1GB) , 4GB Ram, under High Sierra - running that headless using Screen Sharing through the MBP.
First of all I thought that I might be able to populate the DS416 with the miscellany of 2 & 3TB Seagate & WD drives that I have built up over the last couple of years. Wrong!
Amber warning lights after 3 weeks so back to the drawing board! Synogy support was quick to point out my error there - desktop drives are (apparently) not up to it for use in a server.
I bought a couple of WD Red 4TB drives to run under SRM (took me a while to understand (to some extent) what all that was about! That worked OK and I started moving over all of my music, movie, podcast, audiobook etc. files for iTunes.
Running everything through a Synology RT1900ac with various TP-Link switches to accommodate Apple TV 4, and various other gadgets around the place. Now I am a virgin with anything to do with networks but I'm up for a challenge!
Now this was where I started to suffer. I've thought for some time that iTunes is ageing and past it, and so it proved! I had more trouble working out libraries, duplicate files and ever-decreasing disc space than even I would have thought possible; Thank the people at Tidy Up for help in sorting that lot out - even using a NAS; it's amazing what sort of mess one can get into.
That doesn't include the fact that iTunes really likes to play in its own sandpit of a home drive for everything and at the slightest network hiccup will lose its library address and present a blank where that should be!
Meanwhile, I added 2 more WD Red 4TB drives (this was getting expensive!) and created 2 volumes of 4 Tb each (2*4 AND 2*4) ; I had visions of doing backups of the the mini, the MBP and for Time Machine as well. Huh! Read on!
Over the last couple of weeks trying to add everything to iTunes on Volume 1, now I've sorted out what to keep, I've progressively deleted files after loading through iTunes to the iTunes Library to maximise the NAS storage space.
Now, if you bother to do a search through the Synology forum data-base for items on e.g. "volume disk space decreasing" you will encounter items from 2009 or later on this issue: whatever you do to
make disk space available by deleting files and emptying recycle bins, the available disk space continually decreases! I've tried every suggestion that I've found to no avail and am still waiting for a response from Synology tech support on this. A basic question might be - why are users still posting this as a problem after 8 years?
Right now I'm shuffling data around to clear Volume 1 so that I can (in desperation) re-initialise the volume. to clear the space - I reckon about 800GB.
So that's where I am at the moment folks - read, take pity and (even better) if you know what to do to clear up the Synology NAS disk space issue PLEASE give me a shout!
cheers,
TerryB,
Northumberland, England

Hi all! Having at last decided in a post-Christmas flush, to get a NAS implemented, I looked at the Drobo DRDS4A31 5N 5 Bay Desktop NAS Enclosure to take my "JBODs".Looking at various reviews on Amazon I had to stop and think a bit - Several comments about unit failures after 2-3 years with unretrievable data.
So I looked at the Synology DS416 4 Bay Desktop Enclosure and their specs leave me confused viz:
DS416 External Drives:
EXT4, EXT3, FAT, NTFS, HFS+*, exFAT*
Notes
HFS+ is read only, max 2TB volume size.
exFAT Access is purchased separately in Package Center.
The DS416 Play does not appear to have that restriction.
OK - I'm naive and untrained but am I getting this wrong? Does anyone out there have any reflections on my caution, or recommendations to make? You can ge a feel for how much I am prepared tos spend on this nod I wanted to go for the Dropbox 'cos I'd heard in various podcasts that it is good and takes a mix of drives - I currently have 5 of varying capacities.
Help please!
TerryB, Northumberland, England

Thanks for the input. I've now looked at the NAS options and I think it may have to wait a while (have to pay a handyman for the duration whilst I have my knee replaced!)
Meanwhile - I don't know if this should be a new topic:-
I think I have heard Adam mention this some time back - how to stop the connection to the server (USB on Extreme) being dropped for no obvious reason - (perhaps the MBP going into sleep mode?).
This can be a real pain when one has been running a program such as Tidy Up for hours only to be told that the drive is not available, just at a critical moment!
I know that I heard something about this - always reconnects to the server first thing after sleep? One problem there for me is that it makes me put in a password every time.because I have the Wi-Fi protected; ( I may live in the heart of open country but I have the pub/B&B right over the road - convenient I know!
This probably where a local MUG would be great but Local here is 45 mile either way!
Thanks in advance for any information
TerryB

Well - the 2TB HDD that I use for my music, films etc. has gone kaput. OK I have most of it backed up but this forces me to a decision (not my forte!). I think that I would like to go NAS with more than one drive (I don’t like to have clutter hanging off my recently completely refurbished mid-2009 MBP which gets moved around). Trouble is that I don’t have a clue. I currently have 2 physical 2TB drives on a 4 port powered USB hanging off the Extreme. One of those drives (now kaput!) is my iTunes library, the other consists of 3 logical drives for Time m/c, and other backups: (hmmm - just made me think - that’s a lot of stored eggs in 1 basket isn’t it?) Any advice/ instructions on the NAS option please? I currently have an oldish Netgear DG834G v3 modem with 4 ports, one of which connects to the Extreme. I had been considering put in some ethernet around the house and this is forcing the issue a little. So - help please? Advice - what/where? price counts - I am on a pension! TiA TerryB

Oh dear! New TV as above. Thought I~ could connect to internet etc with the Express (n).. Internet working OK via the ethernet connectoin on the AEx BUT cannot pipe my music from iTunes through the audio. Has anyone done this? I've tried the stereo socket on the Bravia and also using a split from the the AEx to the AV1 input; now I've run out of ideas. Anyone please?
TerryB

This one for instance, or Google, I haven't coming across any unaffected yet- in fact Im using Chrome to do this!
TerryB I haven't added or changed any extensions lately. Here's Wikipaedia:-
(Damn - can't find how to attach a Tiff! - sorry)
TerryB

Has anyone any idea why Safari is suddenly not displaying pages properly?
I was only thinking cynically the other day that Google are pushing Chrome so heavily that they could try sabotaging Safari - and then this happened!
I am guessing that it's related to Javascript (which IS enabled) because all I get is lines of blue script down the page - no block fill or anything.
I've repaired permissions, run Cocktail, downloaded Javascript again but all to no avail.
Ideas please? I'm on OS 10.6.8 on a 2009 4gb 2.53 GHz Core 2 Duo if it helps
TeryB.